The difference is, Coyote had to mail order it all, using money.
This guy got the flat earthers to pay him to build the rocket. It isn't his first rocket; his first one was also human-cannonball style.
He converted to flat-earther when they agreed to pay him to do this, and fund construction. That is why it has their ad on the side.
It is almost impressive the way he's gone from, "yeah, they're paying me to do it!" to just spewing their talking points wholeheartedly as the event approaches.
The types of electric motors used in EVs have constant torque vs RPMs. They don't have a power curve, they have a power line. This fact is broadly true across three phase electric motors.
They're going to be giant truck stops, covered, with solar panels and wind turbines. The same batteries buffer the power generation as buffer the high speed charging, so two for one.
They can just run all the charging, and lease out the retail part to the current truck stop service companies.
No, no, no, you don't get people to consider crap data by insisting they introduce data.
If your data is crap, it gets thrown out. It matters not one fucking bit if I have a better answer, or if we just don't know. If you want to know what the scientific views are, look them up in reliable sources not in blogs, political think tanks, or industry trade group websites.
That's just dumb. Biased sources are biased, you're saying that I'm not allowed to notice or I'm biased? Yes, I'm biased against including sources of information I already know are biased! That's called filtering out garbage.
Why do you think it has anything to do with if I agree with it or not? You won't explain that, because you can't. You just made it up from whole cloth, a wild stab in the dark.
Here is a little helper for those people: Regenerative braking can decelerate as hard as you can accelerate.
This is not true. The reason is that to get the battery to accept the energy back, it needs to be higher voltage than the battery. However, the voltage of the motor windings will be the voltage that you applied to the motor, minus a little bit! So that means you have to boost the voltage. EV motors are three phase of various types, and you're switching the current through two of three legs normally. So for braking, you leave the top side disconnected, and then switch the bottom, which creates a DC-DC boost converter using one half of the motor windings (one half of what you're using at a time, not half the total number available) and treating the motor as an inductor.
Now, Tesla has great engineers, and you don't need a huge voltage difference if you have high quality batteries, which they do, so instead of the normal 48% of the power you used to maintain that speed, you can probably get it a bit higher. Maybe even 75% or something. The good news is, because of the weight of the vehicle and how the affects traction, you can never brake nearly as fast as you can accelerate and the regenerative braking should be able to reach the traction limit just fine if it has good enough firmware. But the braking power is always proportional to speed!
This is why if you're designing an EV using simple braking firmware then you're still mechanical braking for over 50% of the stopping power, and for cars with high quality firmware they get it up to 65 or 75%.
More good news though; most of the wear to mechanical brakes is from heating, not from stopping power used, and if you reduce the stopping power needed by the brake by 50% you've reduced the heat by much more than 50%. So the brakes end up lasting the life of the vehicle in many cases. Under regular use, mechanical brakes overheat and are damaged. If you apply 50% less mechanical braking power, you're no longer degrading them very much.
He's personally disappointed by batteries, and yet other people have noticed how great battery technology is these days! I can understand having been disappointed in NiMH batteries in the past, but why would people still be just waving their hands and declaring batteries to suck forever? That already stopped being true!
And a lot of the EV revolution already happened. Anywhere you drive you see lots of cars with ev markings on the back, and you never see people pushing them down the side of the road, unable to reach their destination!
I don't live in a "warm climate," and yet, there are lots of EVs everywhere.
Priced at $150,000, which is almost free for a truck like this, they can sell them wherever they want.
Tesla is manufacturing constrained and they can presell their whole production for years. So it doesn't matter where the "early adopters" are. They're not pricing it to tease it out to early adopters, they're pricing it to immediately disrupt the industry, and leave everybody that doesn't pre-order wishing they did.
Maintenance on trucks is really, really expensive. Electric vehicles cut the maintenance down to almost nothing. Normally, you pay for that up front with a much higher vehicle price, but this thing is priced competitively and when you consider maintenance, the companies that get them will almost be getting paid to drive it!
If they wanted to sell using an early adopter model they'd make more money in the short term, but they'd have a lot less market share 10 years out because the other brands will follow. This way, their early sales are going to the same people as later sales, and they build the brand loyalty where it counts right from the start! Very very different industry than consumer electronics, or luxury cars. I'm very impressed that Tesla is able to make such a bold and boring play.
Learn to read, nobody offered to pay your shipping, or even put you in the box. You want to escape all us SJWs, you can swim there for all we care.
What he said was, the rent is cheap and you might like it. I know that sounds the same as being shipped off to a death camp to you, because libraaals communicate using words, and words are scary. But don't think you're getting free shipping out of your mistake.
Looking at those links, and not clicking them, they don't really appear as "citations" to me. They appear to be positions.
Instead of clicking your "citations," I looked at the meta-data to see what you're shilling as "citations."
nextbigfuture.com is the blog of a guy named Brian L. Wang. From their about page:
Brian L. Wang, M.B.A. is a long time futurist. A lecturer at the Singularity University and Nextbigfuture.com author. He worked on the most recent ten year plan for the Institute for the Future and at a two day Institute for the Future workshop with Universities and City planners in Hong Kong (advising the city of Hong Kong on their future plans). He had a TEDx lecture on Energy. Brian is available as a speaker for corporations and organizations that value accurate and detailed insight into the development of technology global trends.... He has written over 20000 articles for Nextbigfuture including in depth coverage on energy (especially nuclear and nuclear fusion), space, quantum computers, science, superconductors, nanotechnology, advanced computers and communication, military, technology, AI, urban development, cities and megacities.
Again, he's an MBA. It is probably a great blog, too, since they let him give a TEDx talk! But, just a blog. Linking to a blog doesn't mean you gave a "citation," it just means you aren't able to explain the ideas you want to convey yourself.
I also looked up institureforenergyresearch.org, which turns out to be a right wing think tank supported by ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Mother Jones ranked them #12 in the "Dirty Dozen" worst groups questioning anthropogenic climate change http://www.motherjones.com/env...
world-nuclear.org is just shooting fish in a barrel:
The World Nuclear Association (WNA) is the international organization that promotes nuclear power and supports the companies that comprise the global nuclear industry. Its members come from all parts of the nuclear fuel cycle, including uranium mining, uranium conversion, uranium enrichment, nuclear fuel fabrication, plant manufacture, transport, and the disposition of used nuclear fuel as well as electricity generation itself.[1]
Together, WNA members are responsible for 70% of the world's nuclear power as well as the vast majority of world uranium, conversion and enrichment production.[2]
"They're not swept under the rug, please point to the rug and show me where on the rug they are!" derp!
If you understood the issue, you'd agree that lots doesn't get measured because it isn't practicable. If it is well known that lots of the deaths wouldn't be counted, then there is no need to demand evidence.
Go and look at a list of illnesses associated with radiation exposure, and then consider if there are any for which it would not be detected that radiation was involved. If you can't think of anything, just shut up and go away. You're the only one denying the science! Not everything already predicted to be happening is predicted to already be being measured, especially things known not to be being measured!
First of all, I just have to say: First world problems on this one...
Awww, people said words you didn't think were as important as world peace, poor baby.
Did you ever bother to toss "spending time complaining about vapid bullshit" onto your Problem-O-Meter to see if whining that insignificant problems are insignificant is more, or less, insignificant than your target?
No, he's explaining to you the logical errors you're making by ridiculing them.
You're talking about yourself, and it isn't about you. If you want to talk about yourself, make your opinion also about yourself and leave those other out of it. If your opinion is about others, talk about them, not yourself. And that will require first thinking about things from their perspective, which implies having listened carefully and having understood and believed them about their views.
For example, you don't even seem to understand who it is that values embargoed reviews; I'll give you a hint, it isn't the readers.
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Dude, he's seeking attention because they're paying him to do it with their logo on the side. Seeking attention is what advertising is about!
The difference is, Coyote had to mail order it all, using money.
This guy got the flat earthers to pay him to build the rocket. It isn't his first rocket; his first one was also human-cannonball style.
He converted to flat-earther when they agreed to pay him to do this, and fund construction. That is why it has their ad on the side.
It is almost impressive the way he's gone from, "yeah, they're paying me to do it!" to just spewing their talking points wholeheartedly as the event approaches.
He's a stunt man. It is a stunt.
Even without the ~10:1 gearbox the wheel acts as a gear too.
Derd! Hey derd.
The types of electric motors used in EVs have constant torque vs RPMs. They don't have a power curve, they have a power line. This fact is broadly true across three phase electric motors.
Also: Mechanical advantage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Did you know he even hired some real engineers for the project?!
They're going to be giant truck stops, covered, with solar panels and wind turbines. The same batteries buffer the power generation as buffer the high speed charging, so two for one.
They can just run all the charging, and lease out the retail part to the current truck stop service companies.
No, no, no, you don't get people to consider crap data by insisting they introduce data.
If your data is crap, it gets thrown out. It matters not one fucking bit if I have a better answer, or if we just don't know. If you want to know what the scientific views are, look them up in reliable sources not in blogs, political think tanks, or industry trade group websites.
That's just dumb. Biased sources are biased, you're saying that I'm not allowed to notice or I'm biased? Yes, I'm biased against including sources of information I already know are biased! That's called filtering out garbage.
Why do you think it has anything to do with if I agree with it or not? You won't explain that, because you can't. You just made it up from whole cloth, a wild stab in the dark.
It doesn't matter if it is "rare," it matters if it is "common." ;)
It isn't common. Great theory, sounds believable, but it isn't common.
It is mostly couples who own their own trucking business.
Here is a little helper for those people: Regenerative braking can decelerate as hard as you can accelerate.
This is not true. The reason is that to get the battery to accept the energy back, it needs to be higher voltage than the battery. However, the voltage of the motor windings will be the voltage that you applied to the motor, minus a little bit! So that means you have to boost the voltage. EV motors are three phase of various types, and you're switching the current through two of three legs normally. So for braking, you leave the top side disconnected, and then switch the bottom, which creates a DC-DC boost converter using one half of the motor windings (one half of what you're using at a time, not half the total number available) and treating the motor as an inductor.
Now, Tesla has great engineers, and you don't need a huge voltage difference if you have high quality batteries, which they do, so instead of the normal 48% of the power you used to maintain that speed, you can probably get it a bit higher. Maybe even 75% or something. The good news is, because of the weight of the vehicle and how the affects traction, you can never brake nearly as fast as you can accelerate and the regenerative braking should be able to reach the traction limit just fine if it has good enough firmware. But the braking power is always proportional to speed!
This is why if you're designing an EV using simple braking firmware then you're still mechanical braking for over 50% of the stopping power, and for cars with high quality firmware they get it up to 65 or 75%.
More good news though; most of the wear to mechanical brakes is from heating, not from stopping power used, and if you reduce the stopping power needed by the brake by 50% you've reduced the heat by much more than 50%. So the brakes end up lasting the life of the vehicle in many cases. Under regular use, mechanical brakes overheat and are damaged. If you apply 50% less mechanical braking power, you're no longer degrading them very much.
Wait, it doesn't have a cabin air filter?!?! You might have missed another $12 that is coming up! Time to start saving.
He's personally disappointed by batteries, and yet other people have noticed how great battery technology is these days! I can understand having been disappointed in NiMH batteries in the past, but why would people still be just waving their hands and declaring batteries to suck forever? That already stopped being true!
And a lot of the EV revolution already happened. Anywhere you drive you see lots of cars with ev markings on the back, and you never see people pushing them down the side of the road, unable to reach their destination!
I don't live in a "warm climate," and yet, there are lots of EVs everywhere.
Definitely not subscribing to his newsletter.
In Oregon we set up the tax credit so that you can get if you do your own install, you just have to hire a technician to do an inspection.
This prevented the credit from boosting install prices, and is part of the reason we have low cost installation available.
Sunsets in December though; we now have the thriving solar industry it was designed to encourage!
Priced at $150,000, which is almost free for a truck like this, they can sell them wherever they want.
Tesla is manufacturing constrained and they can presell their whole production for years. So it doesn't matter where the "early adopters" are. They're not pricing it to tease it out to early adopters, they're pricing it to immediately disrupt the industry, and leave everybody that doesn't pre-order wishing they did.
Maintenance on trucks is really, really expensive. Electric vehicles cut the maintenance down to almost nothing. Normally, you pay for that up front with a much higher vehicle price, but this thing is priced competitively and when you consider maintenance, the companies that get them will almost be getting paid to drive it!
If they wanted to sell using an early adopter model they'd make more money in the short term, but they'd have a lot less market share 10 years out because the other brands will follow. This way, their early sales are going to the same people as later sales, and they build the brand loyalty where it counts right from the start! Very very different industry than consumer electronics, or luxury cars. I'm very impressed that Tesla is able to make such a bold and boring play.
Learn to read, nobody offered to pay your shipping, or even put you in the box. You want to escape all us SJWs, you can swim there for all we care.
What he said was, the rent is cheap and you might like it. I know that sounds the same as being shipped off to a death camp to you, because libraaals communicate using words, and words are scary. But don't think you're getting free shipping out of your mistake.
But do people in London live longer (more than Blackpool or Manchester) or shorter (4 and a half months) lives?
Yes. Yes they do.
Looking at those links, and not clicking them, they don't really appear as "citations" to me. They appear to be positions.
Instead of clicking your "citations," I looked at the meta-data to see what you're shilling as "citations."
nextbigfuture.com is the blog of a guy named Brian L. Wang. From their about page:
Again, he's an MBA. It is probably a great blog, too, since they let him give a TEDx talk! But, just a blog. Linking to a blog doesn't mean you gave a "citation," it just means you aren't able to explain the ideas you want to convey yourself.
I also looked up institureforenergyresearch.org, which turns out to be a right wing think tank supported by ExxonMobil and the American Petroleum Institute. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Mother Jones ranked them #12 in the "Dirty Dozen" worst groups questioning anthropogenic climate change http://www.motherjones.com/env...
world-nuclear.org is just shooting fish in a barrel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Citation" is not a synonym for "www link."
Hurr Hurr, very funny!
But, it isn't about pancakes. It is about if she is hurt and somebody needs to contact you.
She could be in the hospital, and the doctors would be making her life-and-death decisions instead of you because all they had was her phone.
They'll be able to figure out who everybody is and call you tomorrow, of course. Wouldn't you want to be there?
"They're not swept under the rug, please point to the rug and show me where on the rug they are!" derp!
If you understood the issue, you'd agree that lots doesn't get measured because it isn't practicable. If it is well known that lots of the deaths wouldn't be counted, then there is no need to demand evidence.
Go and look at a list of illnesses associated with radiation exposure, and then consider if there are any for which it would not be detected that radiation was involved. If you can't think of anything, just shut up and go away. You're the only one denying the science! Not everything already predicted to be happening is predicted to already be being measured, especially things known not to be being measured!
Haven't you ever seen a movie with Scottish characters?
If you want to tell the difference, you have to taste it.
it just seemed that the culture always veered into comic books and super heros.
Naw, it was just the people you knew.
You derped all over yourself with your politics. Time to change your shirt!
Newsflash: No, choosing your favorite political team doesn't make you artistically superior to all those ignorant hippies.
Of all the stupid fucking shit people say, this is just about the stupidest in awhile.
First of all, I just have to say: First world problems on this one...
Awww, people said words you didn't think were as important as world peace, poor baby.
Did you ever bother to toss "spending time complaining about vapid bullshit" onto your Problem-O-Meter to see if whining that insignificant problems are insignificant is more, or less, insignificant than your target?
No, he's explaining to you the logical errors you're making by ridiculing them.
You're talking about yourself, and it isn't about you. If you want to talk about yourself, make your opinion also about yourself and leave those other out of it. If your opinion is about others, talk about them, not yourself. And that will require first thinking about things from their perspective, which implies having listened carefully and having understood and believed them about their views.
For example, you don't even seem to understand who it is that values embargoed reviews; I'll give you a hint, it isn't the readers.
Aquaman to the... rescue?